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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 3, 2011.
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I will think a glowing, thankful thought about you. And then I will send you an MP3 from my new album. When it is complete. Which I will be able to do if you send me a dollar 6,500 times. Yeah! Hit me!
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One MP3 off one of Alexa's previously released albums, and an MP3 off the new album too! Woo hoo!
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In this beautifully produced PDF eBook (Alexa was a magazine editor for 10 years), you'll get a list of the books about music, voice, theory, composition, art, inspiration, life challenges and business, among other topics, that Alexa highly recommends. She also includes her favorite works of fiction. Alexa's List of Books. It's like the New York Review of Books, only shorter and artier -- oh, and no politics either. NOTE: This eBook is not included in the $35 reward.
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Another beautifully designed PDF eBook, this one is called Alexa's Guide to Practice. This is filled with inspiration, tips, ideas and reporting on what famous musicians, dancers, athletes, artists and writers have found works to keep them practicing their craft or calling. Also comes with checklists you can use to create your own perfect practice routine. NOTE: The eBooks are not included in the $35 reward.
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A high-quality download of the complete, final album before the release date!
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All of the above, plus a sensual signed poster of Alexa that is sure to change your life, or at least your wall!
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The $35 reward, plus a collection of Alexa's previous CDs and three different, unique signed promo posters!
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One 50-minute voice lesson with Alexa in person or via Skype.
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The $50 reward, plus a batch of two dozen of Alexa's delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies mailed to you!
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The $50 reward, plus go running with Alexa in a picturesque Bay Area location, anywhere from 3 to 7 miles (unless Alexa is injured or way out of shape, or you are). But hey, we will get to the picturesque location and we will go the distance, somehow. Let's do it.
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The $50 reward package, plus one personal weight-training session, salsa aerobics class or salsa dance lesson with Alexa.
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The $50 reward package, plus I will personally bake and decorate a child's birthday cake for you! I love doing this for my boys. See the video for examples. San Francisco Bay Area only (I don't know how to mail a birthday cake).
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The $50 reward package, plus two 1-hour voice lessons in person or via Skype with Alexa!
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The $50 reward package, plus I will cook you a homemade meal of my secret recipe cracklin-good chicken tenders and homefries and lemonade (local only). My kitchen or yours.
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The $50 reward package, plus dance onstage with Alexa at a gig (so long as you don't knock anything over or fall off stage)!
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The $50 reward package, plus Alexa paints your family's faces for Halloween or for a children's birthday party! Note: Alexa does not know how to do balloon animals. Don't ask unless you want things to get ugly.
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The $50 reward package, plus another award above under $200 of your choice, plus Alexa will send you handwritten sheet music for three songs off the new album! And yes, you get the $50 reward too.
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The $50 reward package, plus another award above of your choice, plus: Handwritten sheet music, exclusive artist photos and lyrics for five songs off the new album, beautifully bound in a one-of-a-kind book!
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The $50 reward package, plus: Your very own house concert with the Alexa Weber Morales Band (Northern California only)! We bring the sound system, songs and smiles right to your livingroom or back yard! If you are outside the Bay Area you'd need to pay us for travel/lodging/food. But if you are rich this may make perfect sense! Yes!
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The $50 reward package, plus another award above of your choice, plus: You get an executive producer credit on the album!
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The $50 reward package, plus another award above of your choice, plus an executive producer credit on the album, plus.... drumroll~~~~~~: An original oil-on-canvas painting by Alexa inspired by the songs on the new album!
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Since 2004, Oakland, Calif.-based multilingual (French, Spanish, Portuguese, English) songwriter Alexa Weber Morales has made nine studio recordings, including two solo albums, Jazzmérica and Vagabundeo, and a solo EP, From Me To Yule. In 2010, her vocals graced the Grammy-nominated latin jazz album Bien! Bien!
A percussionist, dancer, pianist and tree-climber, Alexa writes about smoldering obsessions, resourceful outcasts, captured sinners and restless spirits. Her lead singing and lyric writing on Wayne Wallace's 2007 top-10 latin jazz date The Reckless Search for Beauty received wide acclaim (especially Use Me and Afro Blue).
Alexa’s 2004 debut, Jazzmérica, was produced by five-time Grammy nominee Wallace and boasts an all-star band including John Santos, Frank Martin (Stevie Wonder), Ricardo Peixoto (Claudia Villela), Edgardo Cambón, and many others.
Her second date, Vagabundeo (2007, Patois Records), again included a crack team, among them vocalist Kenny Washington, featured on the a cappella rendition of Calling You. Produced by Wallace and distributed worldwide via KOCH, the album received top-20 jazz radio play.
Alexa is a charismatic stage performer whose venues include Yoshi's, Santana Row, Jazz at Pearl's, many California festivals and shows in Austin, Las Vegas and Boston. She has opened for Lenny Williams (Tower of Power) and Average White Band.
Huzzah! Can't wait to hear those dulcet tones and fresh tunes.
Yay! I can't wait to hear the results. We need more original independent music on the planet.
Thank you everyone!!
I was going to go back to sleep, I really need to in fact, but now....
Ah ah ah ah WOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Congratulations!
Jeff- I am going with your booster pledge. We are too close not to do this.
Thanks for your help, everyone! Funny, I thought I set the deadline for midnight on Tuesday but I guess it's noon! Oh well and yikes! Just finished translating one of my songs for the album into French and sent it off for review...
Great cheerleading, Jeff. I made a booster pledge too -- so come on, gang -- as they say in my neck of the woods, let's git 'er DONE!
Alright!! 8% left to go...Come on people let's close this deal! I just upped my little total by$18, if the rest of you add just $9 Alexa is over the top!! We are so close!! Come on now...
Alexa may wanna work for us, but 10 years ago, when she was editor-in-chief of a software magazine in SF, I worked for her as an editor. Imagine our team's astonishment the first time we heard her sing: At a software convention afterparty, she'd picked up the mike for a few casual bars of a song with the band — and proceeded to blow us all away.
Two stellar records later, this "worker" has developed into an amazing artist with one of the most gorgeous voices I've ever heard. Can't wait to see this project funded and hear her new material. Those chocolate chip cookies sound pretty tempting, too...
Hi Rocket, I'll get in touch! Dreamers unite! Skies alight! Never quit the fight! Don't drink too much Sprite!
Hi, Alexa. I am a musician (guitarist) and a promoter, I have music connections, I am writing a book, it will be spun off into a film. ... I all but have the funding, and I have a fab screenwriter. ... Your voice speaks for itself. ... I have the blueprint for tours and I have a growing staff to help in that regard. I will attempt to send you a pvt msg via FB message. Until then, much success. - Rocket
Thanks for your comments, everyone! Thanks for your interest, Rafael, I may take you up on that!
Hi Alexa ~ If ever you'd like to audition me as a Latin Percussionist then please Hit me up ~ Sincerely wishing you all the Best, Rafael Ramirez in Oakland, CA.
All right, we're at 40% now. Come on, more backers!
Alexa has great heart and soul
it shines through as she sings
support her brilliant artistry
help give this album wings
;-)
I personally know Alexa and have worked with her many times. I can't tell you how much I respect her artistry and her unbelievable talent. I know beyond a shadow of the doubt this her project " I wanna work for you " will do great things (I'm talking Grammy Baby) Therefore, when Alexa shoots to the top I will feel so proud to know I was a part of making it happen by my contribution on kickstarter,
Peace and Blessing,
Terrie Odabi